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The Cotton Mills at New Lanark
The Olive Tree in Biggar -an excellent delicatessen in the High Street.
The Botanic Garden at Dawyck, just 11 miles (18km) from Cormiston Farm.
For events and places to visit relating to Charles Rennie Mackintosh see the website of The Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society
The Dancing Light Gallery is a new gallery in the Borders exhibiting works from established as well as emergent artists. About 15 miles from Cormiston Farm, the gallery is co-located with an organic cafe. www.dancinglightgallery.co.uk
There are many things to see and do in the Clyde Valley. Here are just a few:
Biggar is a market town retaining its medieval layout, along the A702. There are excellent pubs, restaurants and some very special museums, including: The Greenhill Covenanters' Museum, the Victorian Puppet Theatre, the Gladstone Court Museum and the Gasworks Museum.
Biggar has a Gala Week in June each year. There are many festivities; the crowning of the Fleming Queen, and the Biggar Rideout among them. The Rideout assembles at 1pm at the Municipal Hall in Biggar on the first Sunday of Gala Week. It stops at Cormiston Farm Cottage at 2pm, before continuing its ride up Whinney Brae to Biggar Common. Races are held at Rowhead Farm before continuing round the boundary of Biggar, raising the flag on Bizzyberry Hill and then finishing at Cadger's Brig at 6pm.
In August there is a well-attended vintage car rally.
External Link to Undiscovered Scotland, Biggar
New Lanark is an 18th century village, built from 1785, in the steep gorge of the Clyde Valley just 1 mile from Lanark. The industrial buildings took advantage of the force of the Clyde to power the processes of the textile industry. The social housing and workers conditions were many years ahead of their time. Still inhabited, the town is now a United Nations World Heritage Site. Enough to see and do for a whole day. (10 miles from Cormiston).
External Link to www.newlanark.org
The Falls of Clyde are a short walk up-river from New Lanark. The walk along the river gorge is through a well signposted nature reserve, managed by the Scottish Wildlife Trust. The largest fall, Corra Linn, drops some 27 metres down the gorge.
The Falls of Clyde Wildlife Reserve (photograph by Rob Wareman)
Fly Fishing There is good fly-fishing for Trout and Grayling on the Clyde not far from the farm. For details on costs, rules and permits visit Lamington and District Angling Improvement Association.
Drumlanrig Castle in Dumfries and Galloway lies within the 120,000 acre Queensberry Estate. Beautiful gardens surround the magnificent house completed in 1691. There are woodland walks, cycle routes and mountain bike trails. It is about one hour by car from Cormiston Farm.
External link to: Drumlanrig Castle
The Biggar "Riding of the Marches" passes Cormiston Farm
Re-enactment at the Lanark Medieval Festival
New Lanark
The Falls of Clyde (Corra Linn) in full flood.
The Falls of Clyde in Autumn - (photograph by Rob Wareman)